Petition of Cage-Free egg's Reactions of companies to which we submitted

Petition of Cage-Free egg's Reactions of companies to which we submitted

2018/06/26

We launched a petition called “Stop Confining Hens which Produce Eggs for us in Cruel Cages.” On 2018 June 18, it already has gathered more than 16,350 signatures.
This petition was launched to ask companies and government to shift from cage eggs which confines hens in tine cages to free range or barn eggs.
We asked companies to meet us to discuss cage-free policy and to accept the petition and documents writing about information related to cage-free movement. (We did the same thing also in 2017. You can find the results from here in Japanese.)
As we gather more and more signatures, it will be more difficult for companies to ignore cage-free movement. If you have not signed yet, please do so from this link.

What staffes of those companies often say is “It is another company who is buying the ingredient for us.” “We do not decide what ingredients to buy.” It looks like they are trying to avoid responsibility. Since they are buying the ingredients from the “another company,” they have rights to decide what ingredients to use.
We will keep asking companies to shift to cage-free eggs and keep giving them information about cage-free movement.

Companies which refused to accept the petition

Saint Marc Holdings Co., Ltd.

Even though they said they understand there are opinions to see cage eggs cruel and more than 16,000 people want cage free eggs, they refused to accept the document and the petition.

We contacted Burger King in US asking if the policy is also applied to Burger King in Japan, asking to covey the policy to Burger King in Japan, to encourage Burger King in Japan to also make the policy about cage-free. We did not get answer so far. It seems like they are ignoring us.

Some companies did not even reply to our messages. Even though they gave us answer, some companies refused to accept the petition and the document.
It is disappointing that they cannot even accept the voices of more than 16,000 citizens and cannot look at it.
However, some companies gave us positive reaction such as “We have been thinking animal welfare is an issue we need to think about. We would like to study from you.”
Some companies started to recognize the importance of animal welfare because the voices of citizens are getting bigger.